“Making Monitoring Work� Standards and Stadardised Framework for Monitoring Racist Incidents Presentation to Dublin City Joint Policing Committee 30th May 2011
Catherine Lynch ENAR Ireland
About ENAR Ireland
We are a national network of organisations working collectively to highlight and address racism at a local, national, European and international level. We are the Irish Coordination for the European Network Against Racism, a network of 700 NGOs across the European Union.
Overview
Context – racism and anti-racism Why Monitor racist incidents? ENAR Ireland Response – standard framework Progress to date – overview of pilot Next steps and reflection Informed by ENAR Shadow Report and Report on Racist Violence and Crime, mapping exercise, consultation and practice.
Key issues - General
Current context – recession, risk factors Evidence of racism, e.g. EU FRA and TUI research Pervasiveness of racism and inequality Change in infrastructure – impetus for developing work in this area
Overarching Issues – Europe 1. Global economic crisis 2. Acknowledgment and Data collection 3. Implementation of legislation 4. Incidents: reports and investigations 5. Racism and the political arena: Far
right parties and extremism
Snapshot comparison Issue
Europe
Ireland
Economic Crisis
Risk factor for increase in racism
Risk factor. Budget cuts.
Racism in the political Rise of far right. arena Racist discourse from mainstream
Context different. Issue more invisibility as economic issues press
Racist violence and crime
On the increase
Concern re. increase and under-reporting
Implementation of legislation including EU ‘Race’ Directive
Some improvement Previously ‘Champion’ and evidence of impact – but budget cuts significant.
Multiple Discrimination/ Intersectionality
Evidence but limited capacity to respond
Evidence, challenges to respond also acknowledged
Roma and Travellers
Target
Target.
Manifestations of Racism/legislative framework
Racist violence and crime Discrimination in goods and services Discrimination in employment Individual and institutional
Why report and record racism Evidence base for policy and practice responses – giving direction Provides information both on extent of racism and problem areas inc. hotspots Provide redress for people experiencing racism and offer support Many forms of racism are against the law Racism cannot be tolerated.
Principles
Address barriers – access, trust, confidence, action Standards and standardised The system, is built on principles of: Anti-racism and protection Independence Access Sustainability Trust Collective and holistic Individual/institutional forms.
Layers -
Recording and evidence base Referral Support Follow up Review and analysis Data collection must have a purpose!
Response – principles to practice Ensure the development of a standard framework for monitoring of racist incidents Comparable and credible information Potential for identifying individual and institutional forms of racism Utilise existing civil society infrastructure
Support organisations to record racist incidents, make appropriate referrals and support individuals Ensure a range of methods to report racism Review, analysis and action. Broad stakeholder buy-in: towards action, prevention, change
Progress to date
Support from key stakeholders Mapping exercise Consultation Pilot including – Training and agreement Agreement and ‘Roll out’ Review
Data collected about -
Incident Violence and crime Goods and services Employment
‘Victim’ Basis of discrimination Age and gender
Perpetrator (generic) Individual Institution
Action/outcome
Stakeholders/partners include:
People experiencing racism/organisations working with them Data collectors ‘Data users’ Policy/change facilitators
Priorities and next steps
Ensuring access across the country Buy-in from ‘data users’ Looking at how independent/NGO reporting can support official mechanisms Moving forward – change
Conclusion:
Purposeful Data Collection Individual redress – referral, support, outcome, policy/leg change. We need the evidence – numbers matter. No incident ‘too small’! Individual and trend/analysis NGOs play a vital role in ensuring reporting of incidents and supporting individuals Racism is criminal: Report it!
Report online – www.enarireland.org Thank you for your attention.
ENAR Ireland 01-8897110 55 Parnell Square West Dublin 1 EnarIreland@gmail.com www.enarireland.org